but look at that MSRP!
$155 for a 1TB NVMe 3.0 x4 QLC drive is not hot in 2021.
Sorry, when I looked, they were OOS and didn't list the prices.
I agree, that's a bit TOO expensive, for a PCI-E 3.0 NVMe QLC drive these days. I could see maybe $120, for the "newness", but any more than that? Spend it on a Gigabyte PCI-E 4.0 drive.
Edit: Yeah, they didn't have prices listed when I posted that this morning. The prices that they are showing now, are like Samsung 970 Plus prices, for QLC drives? I get it, Intel likes to believe that they are somehow "Premium" like Samsung, but they're really not "all that". Not with QLC. The doubled speed is nice, but that will now only keep up with the nearly-bottom of the market in NVMe SSDs now, except for the extreme-budget "crap drives". That is NOT worthy of the premium price that they're charging.
I even balked at their 1TB QLC NVMe 660p/665p drives being priced higher than $100-110.